The timescale is that it should be available in roughly 3/4 months time. Pretty quick, I think. I'll be sure to post more when I know. I'm thinking I'll blog the research I did that I didn't use in the run up to it so I'll be sure to gross you all out with some of that weird shit.

Good luck with the agents. I've found that they tend to take an age to respond. So far, I've had no luck - I even got a one sentence 'no' reply the other week for the book that's now getting published.

I started STRANGITIES.com as a way to practice writing the only form of fiction I know how to - weird. I've since released one collection of short stories, "STRANGITIES: Volume I" in paperback and ebook with a second just about complete. I'm also a month or two away from releasing my first novella, "The Cold Year Of Creation." (Here's a teaser trailer.) A reader suggested I should join the community of Whitechapel as a way to meet like-minded individuals. So here I am.

I may be bending the rules on this somewhat, since this is not being traditionally published - if so, do forgive me.

I've started serializing my novel, The Last Suburb, on a dedicated Tumblr. I plan on getting a personal website up and running before too long, but I have just enough followers on Tumblr that it made sense to start there and see if I can build up a bit of readership. Whitechapel (without which a good chunk of this novel may not exist, for a variety of reasons) will also, naturally, get first crack at it. Because you're all awesome.

The novel itself has quite a lot (some might say too much already) written, at over 500 pages, but I'll be uploading one scene, between two and eight pages, once per day, until the book is finished. I suppose it works a bit less like a classic serialized novel, more like a daily webcomic, or a TV series.

I'm in Fusion Fragment this quarter, and next month in a little startup mag called Old Hedgy Times, which just dropped its first issue (recommended especially if you like chiptunes), and then another thing in March that's still a shhh moment. I might be joining Old Hedgy as a staff writer, also.

If anybody's interested in collaborating or publishing with Old Hedgy, I'm reachable by email and might be able to pull some strings. They pay.

A bit of publication news. My short story, Chicken Skin Gloves, has just been published by Liquid Imagination. What's interesting for me is that they've also recorded an audio version. The recording is the first time I've heard someone I've never met narrate my work. Very pleased with how it turned out.Chicken Skin Gloves

One of my other hats is as flash fiction editor for a magazine called Indigo Rising UK, our third issue is out, with a good mix of poetry, fiction and flash. There is some really good work from first time published writers.Indigo Rising UK

I'm new but also a writer. I spent a while living entirely as a freelance writer, but I decided I wanted to move out of the ghetto and have health insurance. Plus the video game I spent months writing for got canned. Did some film reviews and piddling crap like that. Been writing comics, though and I finally got published for real! In Canada. In French. BUT STILL. So I mean, you can buy it in French published by a real publisher and it looks really nice... It's an accomplishment, I think? Next, I hope to be published in a language I actually speak!

Been an interesting past few months. Had a thing in Aoife's Kiss mag, but it's taking forever to get my contributor's copy.

Then Bruce Bethke took one of my stories for an upcoming Stupefying Stories! release, something about Weird Westerns. Slated for the end of the month. I really love what Bruce is doing with that magazine, I recommend it a lot to everyone as a venue. He's a real "writers' writer," and very responsive/respectful of even those he is rejecting.

An antho called The Future Embodied took a piece of mine, though I have no idea what their publication schedule is all about.

And then Old Timey Hedgehog is putting out an anthology of my stuff. I totally don't deserve to have my stuff collected yet, but they wanted to, so...yay!